Device for dispensing pencils



April 12, 1932. H mm DEVICE FOR DISPENSING PENCILS Filed Feb. 27, 1929 Patented Apr. 12, 1932 parts srars r rNr FFIcs FREDERICK H. MIX, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK,jASSIG-NOR TO JOSEPH'DIXON GRUGIBLE COMPANY, OFJERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, A- CQB-PORAIION OF NEW- JERSEY DEVICE FOR DISPENSING PENCILS I Application filed February 27, 1929. 7 Serial No.'343,2 07.

The invention relates to an improvement in devices for dispensing pencils. I

The present invention has been developed in connection with selling or dispensing pencils which have various kinds of indicia, such as legends or mottoes, printed or otherwise marked thereon. The object has been to produce a dispensing device in which pencils having various and different indicia thereon may be indiscriminately mixed or tumbled together and then a chance pencil from the promiscuous mass delivered into position to be conveniently removed from the device. More particularly the object of the invention has been to provide a manually operable, elongated tumbling barrel or drum adapted to contain the pencils lengthwise therein, the turning of the drum serving to thoroughly mix the pencils together, and the 3 drum having provision for removal by the purchaser a pencildischarged from the interior of the drum onthe completion of the tumbling operation. The invention is more fully described hereinafter and is particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

The preferred form of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the improved device for dispensing pencils; F ig- 2 is a transverse sectional view through the device shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section through the device.

The improved device for dispensing pencils as illustrated in the drawings may be employed in connection with any usual or preferred form of pencil, such pencils commonly consisting of a marking material such as graphite or crayon enclosed in a wooden sheath. The pencils may be cylindrical or polygonal in form, those indicated at 5 in Figs. 2 and 3 being of the usual hexagonal.

different pencils be different.

For this'purpose the pencils 5' are contained withina tumbling barrel or drum 6 which may be of any preferred form and is shown in the drawingsas of octagonal. form and slightly longer than the average length ofpencils commonly known'as lead pencils. Thepencils are introduced into the interior of the drum 6 through an elongated slot 7 formed in one of the longitudinal edges thereof. The drum 8 is closed at each end by an octagonal-shaped wall 8 which maybe conveniently made of wood, whereas the longitudinal sides 90f the drum will preferably be made .ofv stiff card board. The drum is supported on a shaft 10 located axially-of'thedruml The shaft ex tends through the end walls 8. which aresecurely fastened to the shaft. "The" projecting ends 11 of the shaftlO are jo'urnaljedin: the sidewalls 120i a supporting frameconsisting, in addition to the side walls12, of

the rear wall 13'andthebottom 14. The

upper part 15 of the rear wall "13 provides space for advertising matter. The supporting frame for the druln'is preferably made of stiff cardboard and in order to journal the ends 11 of the shaft 10 properly in the sides 12 of the support, I'provide the flanged bushings 16, fitting tightly in the holes inthe side walls 12 and loosely supporting the ends of the shaft 10.

The hollow interior of the drum 6 having. been about half filled with pencils, the penoils are thoroughly mixed by rotating the,

drum, preferably in a clockwise direction (facing the device), by means of the two rubber gripsor handles 17 mounted on the outer extremities of the shaftlO. Two or three complete turns of the drum are usually suflicient. When the drum is brought to rest in a position with the slot 7 directed downwardly, as in Fig. 3, a pencil will fall through the opening and will be caught and held by two loops 18 extending outwardly through the slot 7. The loops 18 are U- shaped and are provided at their inner ends with the divergent flange sections 19'which are secured to the inner sides of the two wallsv 9 bounding the slot 7 by means of the rivets, in

20. To facilitate the passage of a pencil through the slot 7 to be caught and held by the loops 18 in position to be removed from the device, I provide a bafile 21 which acts as a guide to direct the pencils through the slot 7. The baflie 21 is a broad strip of cardboard extendin from one edge of the slot 7 to the center 0 the drum. At its outer edge the bafile is bent and is secured to the inner surface of the wall bounding the lower edge of the slot 7 by means of one of the airs of rivets 20. At its inner edge the ba e 20 is folded about the shaft 10, as indicated in Fig. 2, and at the point at which the folds overlap the are secured together. When a BEECH has allen through the slot 7 and has n caught by the loops 18, the pencil is removed .from the device by first turning the drum to the position shown in Fig. 2.

Having thus described the invention what I claim as new is A device for dispensing pencils comprising, a drum adapted to contain pencils arranged longitudinally therein, a shaft for sup orting the drum, the two ends of the sha t prO ecting outwardly beyond the ends of the drum, a su portin which the projecting ends of the shaft are journaled, handles secured to the outer extremities of the shaft by which the drum may be rotated, the periphery of the drum having a longitudinal slot through which pencils may be admitted into and discharged from the drum, guide means secured to the shaft and to the interior surface of the drum for directing the pencils out through the slot, and a pair of loops secured to the periphery of the drum and extending outwardly through the slot for catching and holding in position for removal a pencil discharged through the slot.

FREDERICK H. MIX. 

